A suspected
rapist in has been reported drugged and attacked a 15 year old secondary school
student of Young Tajudeen Middle School, Ede, Osun for supposedly refusing him
sex, Punch reports.
According to
reports, on Wednesday April 30th, the victim who lived with her grandmother had
gone to the bush to pick mangoes when she was accosted by the alleged rapist
who begged her for some mangoes.
She said she obliged him but afterwards the
man demanded for sex which refused. She said the man immediately forced a pill
into her mouth which made her unconscious. By the time she woke up, there were
machete cuts on her head, legs and wrist.
Explaining
what happened, the girl said
"I went
to the farm to pick mangoes on the day I was attacked. As I was heading for
home, I met a man who asked me to give him some mangoes and I did. The man
asked me of my name and I told him my name is Suweba, but my real name is
(withheld).
The man later said he wanted
to have sex with me, but I told him I was too young for that. The man
threatened to cut off my head if I didn’t oblige him. He held my head, forced
my mouth open and dropped a white pill inside my mouth.
I fell down and I
became unconscious. I was attacked around 2pm and I woke up when it was getting
dark maybe around 7pm. I managed to crawl to the footpath and shouted for help,
but none came until the following morning.” she said
Passersby
the next morning found the girl on the pathway and then immediately rushed her
to the hospital where it was discovered that the wounds she sustained had
already started decaying with maggots coming out from it.
Hospital
staff, who described the attack as callous, believes the girl could have been
attacked 48 hours before she was brought into the hospital and not the previous
day as she said because of the maggot infested wound.
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